---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state offices and administration."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state offices and administration."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 413"
citation: "Indiana SB 413 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["STATE AGENCIES", "ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eric Koch", "Mark Messmer", "Matt Lehman"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 37
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-04-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/82bf0bc3-1758-4fe8-9554-3b4da09e2240"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/413"
source_hash: "0e3f368f7533fe7376a0ca3769ac274f2e0fa2a964c252aa4c4f94485d2e55a7"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
---

# Indiana SB 413 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state offices and administration.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0413/versions/sb0413.03.engs)
2. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0413/versions/sb0413.06.engh)
3. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0413/versions/sb0413.07.enrh)
4. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0413/versions/sb0413.01.intr)
5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0413/versions/sb0413.05.comh)
6. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0413/versions/sb0413.04.coms)
7. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0413/versions/sb0413.02.coms)

## Votes

- SB 413 - Lehman - 3rd Reading — **90–3** (pass) · legislature
- SB 413 - Koch - 3rd Reading — **46–3** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Mark Messmer — primary (person)
- Matt Lehman — primary (person)
- Doug Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Jim Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Zakas — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Randall Head — coauthor (person)
- Steven Stemler — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-10** Authored by Senator Koch
- **2017-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce and Technology `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-06** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-09** Senator Messmer added as second author
- **2017-02-13** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2017-02-23** Amendment #4 (Koch) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-23** Amendment #2 (Stoops) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-23** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-23** Senator Zakas added as coauthor
- **2017-02-27** Pursuant to Senate Rule 35 (c); technical correction committee report adopted
- **2017-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 206: yeas 46, nays 3 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-27** House sponsor: Representative Lehman
- **2017-02-28** Referred to the House
- **2017-03-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-21** Representatives Miller and Lucas added as cosponsors
- **2017-03-21** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-21** Representative Stemler added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-23** Amendment #1 (Lehman) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-23** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 317: yeas 90, nays 3 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-28** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-28** Senator Head added as coauthor
- **2017-04-05** Motion to dissent filed
- **2017-04-05** Senate advisors appointed: Messmer, Zakas and Randolph Lonnie M
- **2017-04-05** Senate conferees appointed: Koch and Stoops
- **2017-04-05** Senate dissented from House amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-06** House advisors appointed: Miller D, Engleman and Bartlett
- **2017-04-06** House conferees appointed: Lehman and Stemler
- **2017-04-17** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2017-04-17** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2017-04-18** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 498: yeas 83, nays 10
- **2017-04-19** Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 484: yeas 49, nays 0
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-25** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-27** Public Law 215
- **2017-04-27** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/82bf0bc3-1758-4fe8-9554-3b4da09e2240`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).